Over the River and Through the Wood - An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century American Children''s Poetry

By turns playful, contemplative, humorous, and subversive, these poems appeal to modern sensibilities while giving scholars a revised picture of the nineteenth-century literary landscape.

About the author

Karen L. Kilcup is a professor of American literature at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Her books include Teaching Nineteenth-Century American Poetry and Fallen Forests: Emotion, Embodiment, and Ethics in American Women’s Environmental Writing, 1781–1924

Summary

By turns playful, contemplative, humorous, and subversive, these poems appeal to modern sensibilities while giving scholars a revised picture of the nineteenth-century literary landscape.

Product details

• Authors: Karen Kilcup, Karen L. Kilcup, Karen L. (Professor of American Literature Kilcup, Karen L. Sorby Kilcup
• Assisted by: Karen L Kilcup (Editor), Karen L. Kilcup (Editor), Karen L. (Professor of American Literature and Environmental Studies Kilcup (Editor), Kilcup Karen L. (Editor), Angela Sorby (Editor), Angela (Associate Professor Sorby (Editor), Sorby Angela (Editor)
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.02.2014
• EAN: 9781421411408
• ISBN: 978-1-4214-1140-8
• No. of pages: 592
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Story books, fairytales, sagas, rhymes, songs; Fiction > Poetry, drama > Poetry; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; POETRY / Anthologies (multiple authors), LITERARY CRITICISM / Children's & Young Adult Literature, Poetry anthologies (various poets), Children’s and teenage literature studies: general